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New Features in Digital Performer 7.24 New Features in Digital Performer 7.24 OVERVIEW Pro Tools | HD system requirements This document provides information about new features in Digital Performer supports DAE version 8.0–8.0.3 with the Digital Performer 7 and late-breaking information not following Digidesign Pro Tools systems: covered in the Digital Performer User Guide. ■ Pro Tools | HD (1, 2 or 3) System requirements . 1 ■ Pro Tools | HD Accel Users of previous versions of Digital Performer . 1 Enhancements in version 7.24 . 2 Pro Tools version 8.0 cs3 or later is strongly recommended. Enhancements in version 7.23 . 2 ☛ Enhancements in version 7.22 . 2 Support for Pro Tools 8.0.3 requires that Pro Tools is Enhancements in version 7.21 . 2 installed before installing Digital Performer 7.1 or later. If New features in version 7.2 . 3 Pro Tools 8.0.3 is installed after Digital Performer 7.1 or later, Enhancements in version 7.12 . 5 the Digital Performer installer must be run again for DAE to Enhancements in version 7.11 . 6 function properly. New features in version 7.1 . 7 ☛ Avid has announced the end of support for DAE mode Enhancements in version 7.02 . 14 in third-party applications such as Digital Performer and Enhancements in version 7.01 . 14 Logic. Digital Performer 7.24 is anticipated to be the final New features in version 7.0 . 15 version of Digital Performer to support the use of DAE as the audio engine. For more information, please refer to “Supported Pro Tools systems” on page 2 in the Digital SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Performer DAE Guide (Help menu). Minimum requirements Digital Performer 7.24 requires: While Avid is bringing third-party DAE support to a close, they have opened third-party support for their Pro Tools|HD ■ PowerPC G4 CPU 1 GHz or faster (including PowerPC G5 Native system. This allows you to run Digital Performer as a CPUs and all Intel processor Macs) complete software front end for the Pro Tools|HD Native system and its audio interfaces. For more information, please ■ 1 GB RAM or more refer to“DAE versus MAS” on page 1 in the Digital Performer ■ Mac OS X version 10.5 or 10.6; v10.5.8 or later is required DAE Guide. ■ A display with 1024 x 768 resolution or higher USERS OF PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF DIGITAL PERFORMER Computer recommendations If you are familiar with Digital Performer version 5 or earlier, The recommended system for Digital Performer 7.21 is: please note that some user interface elements have changed in Digital Performer version 6 and later. For information on ■ PowerPC G5 or Intel CPU, with multi-core processor or these changes, please refer to the “Users of previous versions multiple processors of Digital Performer” page in DP’s online help files (Help ■ 2 GB RAM or more menu > Digital Performer Help). ■ A display with 1280 x 1024 resolution or higher The faster the Mac, and the more RAM installed in it, the more responsive Digital Performer is. Scrolling during playback is smoother, the counter updates regularly, and actions that you take with the program are faster — especially during playback. 1 NEW FEATURES IN DIGITAL PERFORMER 7.24 ENHANCEMENTS IN VERSION 7.24 ENHANCEMENTS IN VERSION 7.21 Improvements, optimizations, and refinements can be found Audio pitch automation reference . 2 in the following areas: Other changes . 2 ■ Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) support: Digital Performer 7.24 is AUDIO PITCH AUTOMATION REFERENCE compatible with Lion. There is now a preference to adjust the reference frequency ■ Other enhancements: various additional improvements. for audio pitch automation in the Data Display preference pane. This preference defines the A above middle C, with a ENHANCEMENTS IN VERSION 7.23 default setting of 440 Hz. Improvements, optimizations, and refinements can be found in the following areas: ■ Transport: starting and stopping playback when virtual instruments are used. ■ Plug-ins: impulse reponse management in ProVerb; initial playback in MasterWorks EQ when transport is started. ■ Import & Export: reading audio files from a CD; opening Performer project files. ENHANCEMENTS IN VERSION 7.22 Improvements, optimizations, and refinements can be found in the following areas: ■ Analysis: waveform overview construction. Figure 1: Audio pitch automation reference ■ Import & Export: interchanging AIFF files with Pro Tools; importing bundles during Load operations; saving project OTHER CHANGES files. Improvements, optimizations, and refinements can be found in the following areas: ■ Plug-ins: impulse reponse management in ProVerb; state saving and loading in MasterWorks Leveler; Shift-dragging ■ Analysis: waveform overview construction. graph points in MasterWorks EQ. ■ Import & Export: importing CAF files; importing ■ Miscellaneous: managing sidechain output bundles; Broadcast WAVE files with timestamps; attempting to export bringing application into focus when not in front. MP3 when LAME.framework is not installed. ■ Mixing Board: drag and drop of effects clippings. ■ Miscellaneous: consistency of commands and menu items; closing a project with the Preferences window open; reporting of missing soundbites when opening old projects. 2 NEW FEATURES IN DIGITAL PERFORMER 7.24 NEW FEATURES IN VERSION 7.2 Contextual menu items Contextual menus . 3 The menu items shown in the contextual menu will depend Themes . 4 on the context, as the name implies. For example, if you Open Sound Control (OSC) . 4 right-click on a selection of audio data in the Sequence Live search. 5 Editor (as shown in Figure 2), you will see contextual menu Other changes . 5 items for moving and editing audio data, opening the data in other windows, and Sequence Editor track options. Some CONTEXTUAL MENUS menu items may be unavailable temporarily (grayed out) Contextual menus have been added throughout Digital depending on the kind of selection you have made, which Performer to provide convenient access to frequently used layer is active, whether there is any data on the clipboard, and commands and options. so on. All items that appear in the contextual menus are available elsewhere as regular menu items, mini-menu items, keyboard shortcuts, and so on. That is, the contextual menu is never the only place to find a command or option. Object selections When there is object-selected data (such as MIDI notes, soundbites, and so on), right-clicking directly on the selected items will open the contextual menu for those items. However, in cases where it is difficult to click directly on a small object, so you may also right-click in the empty space above or below the selection in the same track. For example, say you have selected multiple MIDI notes, the first of which starts at 13|1|000 and the last of which ends at 16|3|240 (Figure 3). The contextual menu for those selected notes can be invoked by right-clicking on any of the selected notes, or in any empty space in that track between 13|1|000 and 16|3|240. If you right-click before 13|1|000 or after Figure 2: The contextual menu for an audio selection in the Sequence Editor 16|3|240, or directly on an unselected note, the original To access the contextual menu, click with the right mouse selection will be deselected. button or hold the Control key and click with the left mouse button. ☛ Existing behaviors which utilize clicking while holding the Control key take precedence over the contextual menu. That is, when Control-click is already used in a particular context for a different function, you must use right-click to access the contextual menu. Figure 3: Opening the contextual menu for a selection of MIDI notes 3 NEW FEATURES IN DIGITAL PERFORMER 7.24 THEMES Selection Color Digital Performer’s user interface can now be changed with Selection color can also be further customized. themes. A Themes preference panel has been added to the Option Where the color is defined Preferences window (Digital Performer menu). Use Theme’s Selection Color The theme Use A Custom Selection Color The single color picker Use the System Selection Color The Highlight Color setting in System Preferences > Appearance Examples are shown for each of the selection color options. Managing theme files Themes are installed in the following location: /Library/Application Support/MOTU/Digital Performer/ Themes/ Press the Open button (Figure 4 on page 4) to open a Finder window to the folder on disk which contains your theme files. There, you can rename, copy, delete, etc. your theme files. OPEN SOUND CONTROL (OSC) Digital Performer now supports the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol via a control surface plug-in. OSC is used in a variety of software and hardware devices, such as Figure 4: Themes preferences Max/MSP, Pure Data, CSound, TouchOSC, Monome 40h, and more. For information on the OSC protocol, please see A variety of themes are included. To change the theme, select http://opensoundcontrol.org. a theme in the list and press the Choose button. OSC plug-in installation The DP Version column displays the compatible versions of The Open Sound Control plug-in is placed by the Digital Performer for each theme. If a theme does not Digital Performer installer into the standard location for support the current version of Digital Performer, the theme Digital Performer control surface plug-ins: will be unavailable (grayed out). /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/MOTU Control Surface/ A text description and preview image of the selected theme is displayed in the bottom portion of the Preferences window. Configuring an OSC device To use an OSC device with Digital Performer, choose Setup Meter Color menu > Control Surface Setup. Click the + button to add a Meter color can be further customized. control surface, then choose “Open Sound Control” from the Option Where the color is defined Driver menu, as shown in Figure 5.
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